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The Bat office continues to break the mold! FINALLY a Bat book drawn by Ben Templesmith! People in my comic book circle have been suggesting...

By David Nieves We're all still recovering from copious amounts of walking around taking pictures with people and wishing the people in front of us...

By Kyle Pinion One of the bigger initiatives to come from the Big Two this year is the advent of the three weekly titles from...

By David Nieves J. Michael Straczynski isn't one to mess around. Unless it's an hour of sarcasm and announcements, which his spotlight panel, Comic-Con Saturday,...

By David Nieves "DC Comics: New Places For Familiar Faces" was a spotlight of sorts on their big 3 characters through the lens of some...

By Kyle Pinion Grant Morrison's Multiversity has been a long gestating project aimed to spin-off of his Final Crisis event from 2009. The "Scottish Shaman...

By: Nick Eskey There are many pieces that go into creating a successful movie and television series, especially when trying to bring something to life...

Grant Morrison's got some structure in mind for his upcoming  Multiversity series and now we have a map to prove.  As you might expect,...

By Kyle Pinion While Jeff Lemire has recently been making waves with the announcements of his upcoming The Black Hammer at Dark Horse and Descender...

Admit it, if you hear title "Star Spangled War Stories featuring G.I. Zombie," you're probably going to wince a little bit.  Especially given the...

By: Nick Eskey DC Collectibles had a fine showing today of toys, figurines, and statues for the upcoming year. Each one meets the fine level...

The big DC sales news for June was not (as I had expected) the new creative team on Superman, but rather the unexpected huge effect that DC's Bombshell Variant covers had on those comics lucky enough to sport them. Some background: For some time now DC has been doing theme variant covers on many of their best-selling rites each month: Steampunk variants, Robot Chicken variants, MAD variants, Batman 66 variants, etc. Prior to June these were always incentive variants, where retailers could order one variant cover for every so many of the regular cover they ordered (e.g. in May the Batman '66 variant was a 1:25 variant, meaning that for each title retailers could order 1 Batman '66 cover for every 25 regular covers they ordered on a title). Conventional wisdom is that this increased the number of issues sold, as retailers could mark up the price of the variant covers and sell them to collectors it was believed that they would order extra a copies in order to get to the incentive level.